Laravel routes getting not found on nginx/1.8 - php

Question

I use laravel 5.1 and nginx/1.8 it's the first time for me with Nginx Server
When i try to access laravel app home page the route working well
get('/', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
But when i try to access any other page
get('/home', function () {
return 'Home Page';
// Or Blade Page
//return view('home');
});
Nginx return
My settings file on /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name localhost;
#root /usr/share/nginx/html;
root /var/www/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Load configuration files for the default server block.
include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /40x.html {
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
}
}
}
Update
the last result of /var/log/nginx/error.log
#3 /var/www/nginx/html/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate
/Foundation/Exceptions/Handler.php(49):
Monolog\Logger->error(Object(Symfo
2016/01/11 22:59:38 [error] 22510#0: *31 directory index of "/var/www/nginx/html/laravel/" is forbidden, client: 127.0.0.1, server: _, request: "GET /laravel/ HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost"
Note:html/laravel -> laravel is the app name
Any Suggestions ?

Answer 1

Root needs to point to the public folder of your laravel installation. If you've installed laravel into /var/www/nginx/html, then it should be:
root /var/www/nginx/html/public